The Tally Room

39 - Introducing the NT election

Ben is joined by Robyn Smith, historian of the Northern Territory, to discuss the upcoming NT election - recent political events, the party system, some seats to watch, and the peculiar nature of NT elections.

Robyn mentioned Weekends with Walshy, which features in the podcast feed for Territory Story.

Check out Ben's guide to the NT election.

38 - Tasmanian upper house preview

Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham to talk about next weekend's elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council.

 

Apologies for lower quality audio on Ben's part - but it should still be perfectly clear.

• Tally Room guide to the Tasmanian Legislative Council
• Kevin's guides to Huon and Rosevears

37 - Eden-Monaro review and state seat entitlements

Ben is joined by William Bowe, the Poll Bludger, to discuss the results of the Eden-Monaro by-election. We then digressed into a discussion of the determination of entitlements of House of Representatives seats for each state, including the abolition of the Northern Territory's second seat and long-term trends for Victoria and Western Australia.

• Antony Green's blog post about how seats are allocated to Territories
• Journal article about electoral redistributions discussed by Ben

36 - Eden-Monaro preview

Ben is joined by Stewart Jackson from the University of Sydney to preview this weekend's federal by-election in the seat of Eden-Monaro.

35 - Queensland local elections wrap-up

Ben is joined by Alexis Pink to wrap up the results of the Brisbane City Council election and the Queensland state by-elections, including how these elections were influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

34 - COVID-19 and Queensland elections

Ben is joined by Glenn Kefford and Chris Salisbury from the University of Queensland to discuss the Queensland state by-elections and the City of Brisbane election, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these elections.

We recorded this episode remotely from each person's home so there is a few audio problems on one of the guests' tracks, but it shouldn't seriously affect the listening experience.

33 - Council elections in South-East Queensland

Ben is joined again by Alexis Pink from 4ZZZ to discuss elections for the councils surrounding the City of Brisbane: Gold Coast, Ipswich, Moreton Bay, Logan and Sunshine Coast.

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32 - The Australian Election Study

Ben is joined by the ANU's Jill Sheppard to discuss the Australian Election Study: the process and some of the findings.

• AES 2019 election report
• AES trends 1987-2019
• Ben's post about the Australian Election Study

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31 - Introduction to Brisbane City Council

This episode is all about the March 2020 election for Brisbane City Council, the most populous council in Australia. Ben is joined by Alexis Pink from 4ZZZ's Pineapple Rebellion to discuss the context and some of the key wards.

• The Tally Room guide to the Brisbane City Council election
• Pineapple Rebellion website

30 - can our voting system really be "fair"?

Ben is joined by Peter Brent and Stewart Jackson to discuss whether it's ever possible for a single-member voting system to be "fair" in the context of the final defeat of the South Australian fairness clause, and the relative value of survey, polling and raw voting data in assessing the results of an election.